retired library copy bought at a friends of the library booksale.

if you have found this book, welcome to bookcrossing and thank you for taking the time to let us know about it's journey.

feel free to enjoy the book and pass it along to a friend, neighbor, family member or co-worker. or simply leave it somewhere for another lucky reader to enjoy as you did!

this book not your type of read? that's ok, don't feel obliged to read it - just be kind enough to help it on it's journey.

if you haven't yet done so, please take some time to look around this wonderful site of caring, giving readers. should you decide to join, i'd be most honored to have you use my screen name (tempestsans) as your referral. if you join, each time this book (or any you register or find in the future) is picked up and journaled you'll get a notice letting you know of it's travels. i currently have books in such far away places as California, Canada, Romania, the UK, Iran, Japan, Iraq (both with our troops and with the people), New Zealand and Australia!

welcome to bookcrossing and happy reading!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

off as an RABCK today to fulfill a wishlist item. enjoy!

Thanks for the wonderful RABCK, tempestsans!! I look forward to reading it soon.

***RESERVING*** to send to Classicfox once I'm finished.

Amazon Editorial Review:

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill
the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn,
his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of
the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature

Through two New York Times bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.

St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California’s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd’s steady companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.

But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbey’s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Continuing the karma, by RABCKing this to Classicfox, who had it on her wishlist. Enjoy, my friend!

Came today! Thanks dg, I am looking forward to reading the rest of this series. :)

7/05/09: Reading this now and enjoying it very much!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Sent today to my good friend, BruceAlexander. This is on your wishlist. Enjoy!

I hate to sound ungrateful for this lovely RABCK, but this is a book I already had in my possession. I've had it registered on BC since October of 2008:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6621682

I do appreciate your sending it to me, classicfox, and I promise you I will bless someone with it, either by wild releasing it or mailing it on to someone who wants it. Lately I've been wild releasing reams of books at a small rural post office in Florida that is located in a very poor area. The postmaster is thrilled with the books I leave there as she says a lot of the local children are home-schooled, and the books are greatly appreciated, no matter what genre or subject. And it sure seems that way to me, too! Whenever I go back the next day, all the books are gone! So if it's okay with you, I might just leave this book there, to bless someone with.

Its journey from Ohio to Louisiana (to Texas) will not be in vain. It'll be Florida-bound in good time!

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Donating to the library for their distribution or upcoming book sale (whatever they choose)

ETA: Sorry for not donating this in Florida as planned, but I moved to Texas and am unable to return to Florida anytime soon. The library here is simply wonderful, and I thought I'd bless them instead...